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Special Competition Theme: You No Take Candle!

In celebration of the upcoming Kobolds and Catacombs expansion, we've decided to Recruit you adventures to our special expansion competition! So, get your Spellstones ready and hold on to those Unidentified items, because it's time to dive into the dungeon!

Competition-Specific Restrictions:

• Your card must be a Kobolds & Catacombs card. In Hearthcards.net, you can mark your card with the Candle watermark by looking to the right of the "Card Text" section and clicking on "Swirl, Core Set" to bring up a drop-down menu where you can then click on "Kobolds, Newest".
• You must select (at least) one of the following three themed restrictions to abide by:
  • "An Adventurer Has Joined Your Party!" - Your card must contain the keyword Recruit in its card text. Your card can Recruit minions, interact with Recruit cards, give cards the ability to Recruit, or pretty much do anything that directly uses/interacts with the keyword Recruit. Your card, however, does not satisfy this restriction if it just uses the words "Silver Hand Recruit" (Nice Try).
    Examples: Oaken Summons, Possessed Lackey, Kathrena Winterwisp.
  • "Level Up!" - Your card must be a "Spellstone", which is a card that can upgraded by fulfilling a certain condition, OR your card must interact with Spellstones.
    Examples: Lesser Ruby Spellstone, Lesser Onyx Spellstone, Lesser Sapphire Spellstone
  • "Roll a D4!" - Your card must be "Unidentified"; in other words, your card must randomly gain one of 4 bonus effects when it is drawn. Alternatively, your card must interact with Unidentified objects.
    Examples: Unidentified Elixir, Unidentified Shield, Unidentified Maul.

 Competition Process

Discussion Topic Rules

To make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?

• Rules or Process. Do you have a question about the competition's process? Do you need clarification about one of the entry requirements? Are you not sure whether your entry adhered to the rules? Ask here!
• Feedback or Ideas. Do you have some ideas you'd like to run by others before settling on one? Do you need help balancing or wording your entry? Do you need help finding art that will fit your card? Or do you just want feedback from the community on your entry? You're in the right place! Remember, although you are allowed to make minor tweaks to your entry after you've submitted it, you're only allowed one submission per week, so make sure that you've settled on your card for sure beforehand.
• Discussion! Do you have thoughts on other people's entries? Are there directions you don't like that you're seeing too many people take? Or directions you'd like to see more people take? Would you like to help others and contribute to a greater community understanding of Hearthstone card design and balance? This is where you want to be!

All of that said, please refrain from the following:

• Posting TONS of Ideas. Discussion topics become an absolute mess if everybody is posting a dozen different ideas. Please post not more than 3 distinct ideas at a time. Any more than that and we'll have to delete your post.
• Advertising Your Entry. Please don't pop in here just to advertise your entry only to never be heard from again. This includes only asking short, generic, or insincere questions like "Thoughts?" or "Do you think this is interesting?". Yes, getting feedback on your entry is one of the purposes of this topic, but we're not just here for other people to help you. We're here for you all to help each other. 12 hours after this competition begins, there should be plenty of other posts here for you to give specific feedback or for you to comment on a trend. If you post your entry for feedback after this time and do not also offer some form of substantial commentary, critique, or praise of others' work, you may find your post deleted.
• Plagiarism. Many people post their ideas here before finalizing them in the submission topic. Directly plagiarizing those ideas to post in the submission topic yourself is absolutely not acceptable.

Looking for more information about the WCDC or Fan Creations in general? Why not check out this FAQ to see if your question is answered there? You can also PM one of us Fan Creation Mods!

Here's my first idea, based off of just art of Vol'jin looking over some plans:

Trolls are Amani Berserker, Gurubashi Berserker, Drakkari Defender, Drakkari Enchanter, Sen'jin Shieldmasta.

Honestly I think unidentified items and spellstones are going to be hard to make—not because of lack of ideas, but because of lack of art. You have to come up with 5 pieces of art for the unidentified items, and 3 derivatives for the spellstones, so I'm not sure how I would approach that; spellstones would be the easiest of the two.

Here's what I came up with yesterday in anticipation of this:

Still gotta see what I can do with the other two themes.

First three cards coming up.

A New Ally Emerges might be too powerful (specifically in comparison with Effigy), but I think this design is interesting and the flavor is perfect. Paladins also didn't receive any new Secrets throughout this entire year, so I figured this fills that void. It does have interesting anti-synergy with Noble Sacrifice. We need more standalone playable Paladin Secrets.

K&C I believe is the very first expansion (adventures not counting) without any Murlocs in it, so Steelfin Slayer fills that role, though it is a bit on the simple side.

Rise of the Demon Army I made for a Mini Comp a few weeks ago, and this was when we didn't know much about what was going to happen. This was made before Voidlord (or any other Warlock card besides Rin for that matter), and I feel the idea was undermined by Possessed Lackey. Still, I had it made so I might as well post it.

I feel like all the submitted cards will be recruit ones.

Quote from NOVEX0R >>

Question: Does it has to be a Spellstone? Can't it be a minion with upgrade mechanic?

• "Level Up!" - Your card must be a "Spellstone", which is a card that can upgraded by fulfilling a certain condition, OR your card must interact with Spellstones.
  Examples: Lesser Ruby Spellstone, Lesser Onyx Spellstone, Lesser Sapphire Spellstone

Sure! As long as it has the upgrade mechanic like how Kobolds and Catacombs uses it.

Quote from NOVEX0R >>

Well, not sure if it's allowed becouse it's not a Spellstone, but it has a mechanic like it.

I posted this idea a while ago, but I love it and I'll use it here :P

Alright, well here's a spellstone that is both a spellstone and interacts with spellstones.

So you have to use Spiteful Summoner or Raven Familiar to activate this. Maybe the requirement should be to reveal 2 spells...

The spellstones can be from any class (including mage, and including a re-roll on this one). On balance the Spellstones cost at least 5 so this can be good in big spell mage.

Quote from HarryBastage >>

Summon: "Join us!"
Attack:      "BANNED!"
Die:           "I should've kicked you out when I had the chance..."

LOOKING FOR GROUP - Simple and effective. Gives the Hunter class more consistency at the expense of not trigerring Battlecry effects.

TOTAL WAR - a.k.a. Brawl-setup.

NAP - Well, I just tried to make a "Spellstone" with flavor. I am not sure if this wouldn't be broken as fuck in Miracle Rogue or Malygos Rogue though.

Quote from Teknician >>

Alright, well here's a spellstone that is both a spellstone and interacts with spellstones.

So you have to use Spiteful Summoner or Raven Familiar to activate this. Maybe the requirement should be to reveal 2 spells...

The spellstones can be from any class (including mage, and including a re-roll on this one). On balance the Spellstones cost at least 5 so this can be good in big spell mage.

 First draft: